Improved quilting-fkame



PETER 2H. MELLON, or sT.'L0UIs, MISSOURI.

Letters Patent No. 78,989, dated Jtme 16, 1868.

IMPsovED QUILTINeV-FEAME.

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To .ALL WHOM IT MAY coNo'EEN; i

Be it known that I, PETER H. MELLON, of St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis= and State of Missouri, have invented a n ewandnseful Improvement in Quilting-Frames; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a. full, clear, andV exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference .being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is atop view of my improved quilting-frame. i

IFigure 2 is a. vertical section of the same, taken through the lline x x, fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. l

AMy invention has for its object to so iniprove the construction of quilting-frames as to make them more` convenient in use, enabling the quilt to be shifted, and the frame taken apart and `put together, or adjusted at any desired height, quickly and conveniently; and it-consistsin the .construction land combination of the various parts, as hereinafter more: fully described. i Y M i A. areithe stands which support the frame, and which are formed'hy removably'attaching the lower ends of thel uprights al to the baseblocks a2.

vThe baseblocks ai should be made suiliciently large and heavy to securely ballast the frame. The uprights a1 maybe attached to the blocks a2 by having. tenons formed 'upon their lower ends, entering holes formed in the4 said blocks; or, if desired; the tenons may be made roundra'nd may have screw-threads cut upon them, so as to screw-into the'said blocks. i

B are the side-bars ofthe frame, the outer sides of which are grooved transversely, to iit upon the up'rights al `ot the stands A ,to which thesaid side-bars are secured by hand-screws C,vw said uprights al, end screw into holes in the centres of the said bars B.

Several holes are made in the uprights a1, .for the `reception oi the Vscrews C, so that the frame may be adjusted at any convenient ordesired height. i

l) are metallic plates', attached toi `the inner sides of the ends of the bars B, andwhich are slotted, to

hich pass through holes' in the receive the heads of the journals oty the rollersE, oneend of said slots' being made large, Vto receive the heads .of said journals, and the other ends'beingl made smaller, so thatthe said heads cannot pass through them.

F are sliding keys, whichlpass down in grooves between the plates l) andthe bars B, so as to` cover the .enlarged parts of the slots 'through Vsaid plates, to guard against the journals of the rollers E being able towork themselvesI out. i The movements o'f the keys F are guidedand limited hy pins passing through -slots in'- said keys, as shown in ligs.,1 and 2.

E are the rollers, to vwhich the article to be quilted issccured in the usual manner, that is to say, by having its'edges sewed to strips ofA cloth'taekedpr otherwise secured to said rollers. Y l

To. the' ends of the rollers E are attached disks G, of a larger diauieterithan` said'rollcrs, so as'to guard against any part of the article being'quilted working off the endsof the said rollers, and becoming entangled 'with their journals. I

Ratchetteeth H may be 4forlued upon the wheels Gr, at one or both ends 'ofv the rollers E, upon which the `pawls I take hold, to hold the said rollers securely in place, the ratchet-wheels 'and pawlsheng in reversed positions upon the two rollers, as show nin iig.-

J is a bar, which may he passed through holes in the roller E, for. convenience in revolving it.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim Aasxnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is`

Securinv the rollers E in the ends of the hars '113, by'rneans of the slotted metallic plates D and slotted sliding platecs Rias hereinv shown and described-` PETER H. MELLON,

Witnesses: l

M. C. Hannan?,l Y ,THOMAS P. H.'. EWITT. 

